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Nurses -- United States -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Betty Jo Carter Reiser autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337906]
Identifier: MSS 2716
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Reiser writes about her training as a nurse at the L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about her service in the U.S. Army Cadet Nurse Corps. She also writes about her courtship and marriage to A. Hamer Reiser on 7 January 1946.

Dates: 2001

Dorothy Cabris Peay autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341254]
Identifier: MSS 2617
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Dorothy Cabris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1924, served as a nurse for the United States Army from 1944 to 1945, and married Richard V. Peay in 1945.

Dates: 2000

Patricia Rushton autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336924]
Identifier: MSS 2711
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Rushton writes about her experiences as a nurse when assigned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints, and her service in the Navy Reserves. She was called up during operation Desert Storm.

Dates: 2001

Patricia Rushton biographies for Nurses at War

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337690]
Identifier: MSS 2723
Scope and Contents

This file contains a floppy disk (3 1/4 inch) and five optical discs containing 122 biographies as part of the LDS Nurses at War project. They were collected by Patricia Rushton. Materials are dated 2001 to 2003.

Dates: 2001-2003

Henrietta Oberlander Thomas autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337815]
Identifier: MSS 2717
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Thomas served in Hawaii where she met her husband, Thayne L. Thomas. They married on 15 May 1947. She writes about her training and her service. Also included are letters she wrote in 1945.

Dates: 1945-2002

Doris Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337807]
Identifier: MSS 2718
Scope and Contents

Typed short paragraph states that Doris Thompson was indeed a nurse during World War II.

Dates: 2001

Barbara Toomer autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341288]
Identifier: MSS 2620
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Toomer was born in 1929 and went into nursing. She served as a nurse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1955. She married Ross Toomer in 1953.

Dates: 2000

Karla Paul Tripp autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337799]
Identifier: MSS 2719
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Tripp served as a nurse at the Navy Hospital at Mare Island, California. She married Boyd Tripp on 25 June 1947.

Dates: 2001

Ellen Poelman Warner autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337781]
Identifier: MSS 2720
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Warner graduated from East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1942 and began classes at the University of Utah that year. She graduated in 1946. She married Don Warner in 1959.

Dates: 2001

Bessie Rachel Weeter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341338]
Identifier: MSS 2625
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Bessie Rachel Weeter by an unknown author. Weeter graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in Salt Lake City, Utah. She served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps for 31 years and retired in 1976. She died in 1999.

Dates: 2000